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Strong's G5491 χεῖλος (cheilos)

Cheilos means “lip” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5491 — coph (“end”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5491
Language Greek
Linked Usages 161
Books 34

Strong's G5491 Quick Answer

Strong's G5491 χεῖλος (cheilos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. cheilos (khei`-los) n. 1. a lip (as a pouring place) 2. (figuratively) a margin (of water) It has 161 linked Bible usages across 34 books. Visible English usage signals include lips, mouth, lord, thee, and man. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
cheilos (khei`-los) n. 1. a lip (as a pouring place) 2. (figuratively) a margin (of water)
Usage
161 linked usages
Books
34 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
lips, mouth, lord, thee, and man

Meaning and Definition

cheilos (khei`-los) n. 1. a lip (as a pouring place) 2. (figuratively) a margin (of water) [from a form of the same as G5490] KJV: lip, shore Root(s): G5490

Original Word
χεῖλος
Transliteration
cheilos
Derivation
Root: χάσμα R1: 5490
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5491. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

lip

Usage: χεῖλος, -ους, τό, genitive pl., -εων (see Bl., § 8, 4; Thackeray, Gr., I, 151), [in LXX chiefly for שָׂפָה ;] a lip (as in Heb., of the lip as the organ of speech): Mat.15:8, Mrk.7:6, Rom.3:13, 1Co.14:21, Heb.13:15, 1Pe.3:10" (LXX) . Metaphorical, of things, an edge, brink, etc. (Hom., Hdt., al.): of the sea­shore, Heb.11:12.† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

lips mouth lord thee man shalt upon soul things words own tongue

How Strong's G5491 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 139 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5491 (χεῖλος) appears 164 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5491 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5491 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G5491 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

139 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 11:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.

Genesis 11:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.

Genesis 11:9 Septuagint / Brenton

On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

Strong's G5491 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5491.

Genesis 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
Genesis 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said, Behold, there is one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
Genesis 11:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 41:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river.
Genesis 41:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, In my dream methought I stood by the bank of the river;
Exodus 7:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go to Pharaoh early in the morning: behold, he goes forth to the water; and thou shalt meet him on the bank of the river, and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.
Exodus 14:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the Lord delivered Israel in that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead by the shore of the sea.
Exodus 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shalt thou make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling.
Exodus 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of one skin, which is in the midst for the joinings; and thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the second skin that joins it.
Leviticus 5:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That unrighteous soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or to do good according to whatsoever a man may determine with an oath, and it shall have escaped his notice, and he shall afterward know it, and so he should sin in some one of these things—
Numbers 30:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, in respect of the obligations which she has contracted upon her soul;
Numbers 30:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if her husband should utterly cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations contracted upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has canceled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.
Deuteronomy 2:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Gilead; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.
Deuteronomy 3:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Gilead; and I gave his cities to Reuben and to Gad.
Deuteronomy 4:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Sirion, which is Hermon.
Deuteronomy 23:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, so shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
Joshua 13:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all Misor from Medeba.
Judges 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Midian and Amalek and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.
Judges 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they sounded with the three hundred horns; and the Lord set every man’s sword in all the host against his neighbor.
1 Kingdoms 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she was speaking in her heart, and her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: and Eli accounted her a drunken woman.
3 Kingdoms 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.
3 Kingdoms 7:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
3 Kingdoms 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower, and the thickness of it was a span.
3 Kingdoms 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
4 Kingdoms 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha took up the mantle of Elijah, which fell from off him upon Elisha; and Elisha returned, and stood upon the brink of Jordan;
4 Kingdoms 10:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
from Jordan eastward all the land of Gilead belonging to the Gadites, of Gad and that of Reuben, and of Manasseh, from Aroer, which is on the brink of the brook of Arnon, and Gilead and Bashan.
4 Kingdoms 18:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast said (but they are mere words), I have counsel and strength for war. Now then in whom dost thou trust, that thou hast revolted from me?
4 Kingdoms 19:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because thou wast angry against me, and thy fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in thy nostrils, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Chronicles 4:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.
Job 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
Job 8:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, And their lips with thanksgiving.
Job 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, And open his lips with thee!
Job 12:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He changes the lips of the trustworthy, And he knows the understanding of the elders.
Job 13:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, And attend to the judgment of my lips.
Job 15:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: And thy lips shall testify against thee.
Job 16:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And would there were strength in my mouth, And I would not spare the movement of my lips.
Job 27:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My lips shall not speak evil words, Neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts.
Job 32:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
Job 33:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My heart shall be found pure by my words; And the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.
Job 40:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, And bore his lip with a clasp?
Psalms 11:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: Their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
Psalms 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, And the tongue that speaks great words:
Psalms 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who have said, We will magnify our tongue; Our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?
Psalms 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Psalms 15:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their weaknesses have been multiplied; Afterward they hastened. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, Neither will I make mention of their names with my lips.
Psalms 16:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Prayer of David. Hearken, O Lord of my righteousness, Attend to my petition; Give ear to my prayer not uttered with deceitful lips.
Psalms 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded myself from hard ways.
Psalms 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, And hast not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause.
Psalms 21:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All that saw me mocked me: They spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,
Psalms 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the deceitful lips become dumb, Which speak iniquity against the righteous With pride and scorn.
Psalms 33:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 39:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; Lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, thou knowest my righteousness.
Psalms 44:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou art more beautiful than the sons of men: Grace has been shed forth on thy lips: Therefore God has blessed thee forever.
Psalms 50:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; And my mouth shall declare thy praise.
Psalms 58:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, And a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?
Psalms 58:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, Let them be even taken in their pride.
Psalms 62:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy mercy is better than life: My lips shall praise thee.
Psalms 62:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; And my joyful lips shall praise thy name.
Psalms 65:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Which my lips framed, And my mouth uttered in my affliction.
Psalms 70:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My lips shall rejoice when I sing to thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms 88:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; And I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.
Psalms 105:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they provoked his spirit, And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms 118:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With my lips have I declared All the judgments of thy mouth.
Psalms 118:171 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let my lips utter a hymn, When thou shalt have taught me thine ordinances.
Psalms 119:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
Psalms 139:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.
Psalms 139:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the head of them that compass me, The mischief of their lips shall cover them.
Psalms 140:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, And a strong door about my lips.
Proverbs 4:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remove from thee a froward mouth, And put far away from thee unjust lips.
Proverbs 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
That thou mayest keep good understanding, And the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
Proverbs 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For honey drops from the lips of a harlot, Who for a season pleases thy palate:
Proverbs 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a man’s own lips become a strong snare to him, And he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
Proverbs 7:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And with the snares of her lips she forced him from the right path.
Proverbs 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; And will produce right sayings from my lips.
Proverbs 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For my throat shall meditate truth; And false lips are an abomination before me.
Proverbs 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness.
Proverbs 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Smites the fool with a rod.
Proverbs 10:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they that utter railings are most foolish.
Proverbs 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent.
Proverbs 10:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
truths: But the foolish die in want.
Proverbs 10:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the mouth of the ungodly is perverse.
Proverbs 12:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the recompense of his lips shall be given to him.
Proverbs 12:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.
Proverbs 12:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.
Proverbs 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: But he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.
Proverbs 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Out of the mouth of fools comes a rod of pride; But the lips of the wise preserve them.
Proverbs 14:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All things are adverse to a foolish man; But wise lips are the weapons of discretion.
Proverbs 15:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The lips of the wise are bound by discretion: But the hearts of the foolish are not safe.
Proverbs 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There is an oracle upon the lips of a king; And his mouth shall not err in judgment.
Proverbs 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Righteous lips are acceptable to a king; And he loves right words.
Proverbs 16:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heart of the wise will discern the things which proceed from his own mouth; And on his lips he will wear knowledge.
Proverbs 16:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: A foolish man digs up evil for himself, And treasures fire on his own lips.
Proverbs 16:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, And marks out with his lips all evils: He is a furnace of wickedness.
Proverbs 17:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: But a righteous man attends not to false lips.
Proverbs 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nor lying lips a just man.
Proverbs 18:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, And his bold mouth calls for death.
Proverbs 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A fool’s mouth is ruin to him, And his lips are a snare to his soul.
Proverbs 18:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A man fills his belly with the fruits of his mouth; And he shall be satisfied with the fruits of his lips.
Proverbs 22:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all blameless persons are acceptable with him: A king rules with his lips.
Proverbs 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou lay them to heart, They shall also gladden thee on thy lips,
Proverbs 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy lips shall converse with my lips, If they be right.
Proverbs 24:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For their heart meditates falsehoods, And their lips speak mischiefs.
Proverbs 24:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
men will kiss lips that answer well.
Proverbs 24:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.
Proverbs 33:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 33:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 34:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ecclesiastes 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The words of a wise mouth are gracious: But the lips of a fool will swallow him up.
Song of Solomon 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely: Like the rind of a pomegranate Is thy cheek without thy veil.
Song of Solomon 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: His lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.
Song of Solomon 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, Being seen without thy veil.
Song of Solomon 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy throat as good wine, Going well with my kinsman, Suiting my lips and teeth.
Isaiah 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.
Isaiah 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.
Isaiah 28:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
by reason of the contemptuous words of the lips, by means of another language: for they shall speak to this people, saying to them,
Isaiah 29:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord has said, This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
Isaiah 30:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5491, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 28 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 39 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 12 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5491 FAQ

What does cheilos (χεῖλος) mean?

Cheilos (Strong's G5491) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lip". cheilos (khei`-los) n. 1. a lip (as a pouring place) 2. (figuratively) a margin (of water)

How many times is cheilos (χεῖλος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 161 linked usages for Strong's G5491 across 34 books.

Where can I study cheilos (χεῖλος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5491 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate cheilos (χεῖλος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lips, mouth, lord, thee, man, and shalt. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5491 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 139 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5491, with linked reader references where each row is available.